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Goto Muñiz (also Godo) (c. 900–c. 964 CE) was queen consort of the
Kingdom of Galicia The Kingdom of Galicia was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. In the early 10th century, the Kingdom of Galicia was formed following the div ...
She married
Sancho Ordóñez Sancho Ordóñez ( 895 – 929) was King of Galicia from 926 and until his death in 929, and may briefly have been King of León in 925–26. He was the eldest son of Ordoño II, who inherited Galicia in a partition of the Kingdom of Asturias wit ...
, King of Galicia, before 927; he died in 929. After his death, per custom, she did not remarry and instead retired to a convent. She lived for many years after her husband's death, and was recorded in 947 as abbess at the monastery of Castrelo de Miño. Goto features in legends of miraculous occurrences, such as one that states her deceased husband would sometimes appear to her and advise her. In one instance, he supposedly told her to take a fur he was wearing, and give it to an impoverished priest. This fur then became a relic.


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Galician queens consort 900s births 960s deaths Year of death uncertain {{Spain-royal-stub